Large Outlook files lead to various unwanted errors and corruption issues. Furthermore, large outlook files can also make Outlook take longer to start-up, search, navigate, and shut-down. So, In this article, i will discuss a method to make your Outlook faster and better by compressing pst files

Microsoft Outlook is the most used email client all over the world. It has awesome features and an easy GUI makes it a first choice for the individual as well as organizations. It contains Emails, Tasks, Contacts, Notes, and Appointments, and as well as file attachments. Eventually, as you save and store more and more files within Outlook, your PST file can develop to a quite huge size especially when there are heavy file attachments
So your Outlook data takes up the most space on your computer’s hard drive.
And unfortunately, large outlook files lead to various unwanted errors and corruption issues. Furthermore, a large outlook file can also make Outlook take longer to start-up, search, navigate, and shut-down For reducing the size of Outlook PST file, users have to delete the unwanted items from each folder, but it moves to the Deleted Items folder, which is in the same file. So in order to delete your PST file permanently you must delete the items from the Deleted Items. Attachments with email messages are also one of the main reason for increasing PST file size. It is always annoying when PST file size reaches its threshold limit as those large PST files deteriorate the efficiency of MS Outlook.
In this article, I am going to share an easy and effective method to compress large PST files.
You can compress the PST file using Mailbox Cleanup tool which is already available in MS Outlook.

Procedures to compact a PST file using Mailbox Cleanup tool

Open your MS Outlook

Go to the Tools

Select Mailbox Cleanup, a dialogue box will appear.

Click on the “View Mailbox Size”.This will give you the idea of the usage of different sections of your mailbox with their size.

Choose Auto Archive option, to move all your old emails to an archive file in your computer

Check the size of deleted PST files by clicking on “View Deleted Item Size” and then you can delete them using “Empty” button.

Conclusion

In order to make Microsoft Outlook run faster, constant tweaking and optimization are required. Unfortunately, in the Outlook case, you cannot reinstall as the reinstalling bring lots of headaches and your critical data may get lost during the process.
So In order to make it better and faster, you can manage your Outlook files by compressing or splitting large PST files etc.
By above steps, one can easily compress their PST files and make their Outlook faster

Your article is really very informative and useful as you have elaborated two methods to compress Outlook PST file i.e. Mailbox Cleanup and Compact PST feature in an easier way.
Now, I would like to share some more ways to compress an Outlook data file, other than these methods.

As you have discussed in your article about Compact now but there is also an Auto Compact feature in Outlook which shrinks the PST file automatically upto 20% of total file size in the background whereas the Compact Now is a foreground process and we can’t access the system after running the Compact Now command. Also, both the process doesn’t shrink the Outlook files completely. So, I would like to share some more methods to reduce PST file size for user’s benefit.

Hello Singh
In reality, every user first try manual method as no one wants to spend bucks for any software. Still, if you need you can opt for SysInfo PST Compress Tool. It provides seamless compression of PST files in few seconds. The best part of the software is that is very cost-effective and also available with the free version .

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"These manual steps are great but quite lengthy and time-consuming. So can you suggest me some other option through which I can get the job done but in a short period of time."

Yes, these alternatives are length as well as these methods have limits. You can fix your pst file size problems using & reduce the size of PST file by removing attachments or you can extract attachments and compress them to reduce the Outlook PST File by software called " PST Compress". This tool can smoothly compress your large

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